storey
A floor or level of a building or shipA floor or level of a building or ship.
» This is a multi-storey building.
Meaning
3 sensesA floor or level of a building or ship.
For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.
a multi-storey car park
Stock, Stockwerk, Geschoss
эта́жetáž, у́ровеньúrovenʹ, я́русjárus
по́верхpóverx
A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey
(obsolete)A building; an edifice.
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
Examples
32 sentencesThis is a multi-storey building.
He lives on the second storey.
The house they built had four storeys.
Sami lived in a two-storey penthouse.
I live in a ten-storey building.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”)From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches. Doublet of story and history.
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